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UNL featured a number of ranked colleges and programs in U.S. News and World Report’s Best Graduate Schools 2017.

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U.S. News ranks grad programs among nation's best

March 16, 2016

Terri Norton, associate professor of architectural engineering and construction, has received a six-month Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant. She will use the award to examine how Japan recovered from a devastating earthquake and tsunami in 2011.

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Fulbright expands Norton's disaster debris research

March 8, 2016

Dmitry Oleynikov, a UNMC professor of surgery, operates a surgical robot as in the background Shane Farritor, a UNL engineering professor, adjusts the camera on the surgical subject in June 2015. The two developed the robot for minimally invasive surgeries. Farritor and Oleynikov's startup company, Virtual Incision, announced March 1 the first use of its miniaturized robot in human surgery.

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Virtual Incision mini-robots conduct first known human surgery

March 1, 2016

Liyan Qu, assistant professor, electrical and computer engineering, ecently earned a five-year, $500,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program Award from the National Science Foundation to develop a next-generation power grid transformer.

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NSF grant boosts Qu's smart power grid research

February 26, 2016

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Nebraska hosts Women in Science conference

February 18, 2016